ANNUAL MEETING

Our meetings are an opportunity for members to connect with new and existing partners, and engage in strategic discussions; learn about emerging issues; share best practices and lessons learned from their grantmaking and programs; and collaborate on projects.

GHR Foundation joined PSFG after attending the 2014 annual conference. The meeting was hands-down one of the most useful sessions we have attended.

— Andreas Hipple, Senior Program Advisor, GHR Foundation

2019 Annual meeting: save the date

Our 2019 Annual Meeting will take place in Washington, D.C. from May 7-9, 2019. Click here to register.

This year’s meeting includes:

An optional visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

A dinner discussion with Dr. Amitav Acharya and Dr. Maria Stephan on the shifting world order and the future of peace and security philanthropy

Sessions on building a feminist foreign policy, responding to restrictions on grantees, and making the case for peace and security work amidst rising populism, authoritarianism, and militarism

Diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable discussions and a closing plenary on power, privilege, and peace and security philanthropy

The 2019 Peace and Security Funding Index launch party.

2018 Annual Meeting

Our 2018 Annual Meeting took place in Minneapolis, MN from May 15-17, 2018. The full meeting agenda, which includes links to speakers' bios, is available here.

Five Working Group meetings: Conflict and Atrocities Prevention; Gender and Conflict; Nuclear; Budget; and Locally-led Peacebuilding;

Lots of networking opportunities, including the ever-popular “speed networking” session, a scavenger hunt at the International Spy Museum, and coffee breaks and an “open space;”

Three workshops, six “power hours,” and two fishbowl sessions (all member-led), including grantmaking in difficult environments, effective collaboration, long-term funding, and building grantee capacity;

An Oxford-style debate on whether it is more effective to change the system from within or by working outside the system; and

A rooftop cocktail reception hosted by Open Society Foundations that provided the opportunity for funders to meet with and introduce their favorite grantees to PSFG peers.

An Oxford-style debate on the use of military intervention for the sake of peace;

Meetings of four of PSFG’s working groups: Women, Peace and Security; Nuclear; Locally-led Peacebuilding; and Conflict and Atrocities Prevention;

Networking opportunities, including an opening dinner, speed networking, a dinner hackathon centered around three themes (fear, trust, and peace), and a pre-meeting trip to the Columbia River Gorge and post-meeting walking tour of Portland; and